Clothesline pulley



Dec. 15, 1942. C PFLElDER I 2,305,318

CLOTHESLINE PULLEY Filed Oct. 8, 1941 Eugene CLP/Leider:

ATTORNEYS Patented Dec. 15, 1942 UNE'EED STATES PATENT OFFICE CLOTHESLINE PULLEY Eugene Charles Pfieider, West Orange, N. J.

Application October 8, 1941, Serial No. 414,186

2 Claims. 01.

This invention relates to a clothes line pulley and has for an object to provide a device of this character which can be operated with minimum effort and exertion to remove and apply clothes to the clothes line.

A further object is to provide a device of this character which will be formed of a few strong, simple and durable parts, which will be inexpensive to manufacture, and which will not easily get out of order.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, it being understood that various modifications may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a clothes line pulley constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the pulley showing the swinging bracket open to permit a knot in the clothes line to pass over the pulley.

Referring now to the drawing in which like characters of reference designate similar parts in the various views, the clothes line pulley is shown to comprise an elongated U-shaped frame or clevis I!) having a grooved pulley ll disposed between the sides of the frame, and provided with a shaft l2, which is journalled in suitable openings in the sides of frame. The closed end of the frame is deformed to provide a substantially circular eye [3, which may be engaged over a supporting hook I4 secured to a window frame or other support.

A pair of superposed lugs I5 are secured in any preferred manner to one side of the frame. A bracket arm I6 is provided with a hinge eye I! at one end through which and the lugs IS a hinge pintle I8 is passed to mount the bracket arm for swinging movement toward and away from the adjacent side of the frame.

A guide arm I9 is centrally secured to the free end of the bracket arm, preferably through the medium of an eye 20, formed on the free end of the bracket arm and receiving the guide arm. The guide arm extends at a right angle to the bracket arm and extends upwardly and downwardly from the bracket arm, and is formed with curved extremities 2|, which are engaged over the periphery of the pulley to form clothes line guides.

The bracket arm I6 is normally secured in position against the frame through the medium of a wing screw 22 which extends through a slot 23 in the bracket arm and enters a threaded aperture 24 in the frame.

The curved extremities 2| of the guide arm I9 prevent the conventional knot 25 in the clothes line 26 from passing over the pulley II. To permit the knot to pass over the pulley, the wing screw is turned so that the wing thereof is parallel with the slot whereupon the bracket arm l6 and the guide arm [9 fixed thereto may be swung away from the frame so that the curved extremities 2| of the guide arm are removed from the pulley and thus the line may be moved to advance the knot over the pulley.

From the above description it is thought that the construction and operation of the invention will be fully understood without further explanation.

What is claimed is:

1. A clothes line pulley comprising an elongated U-shaped frame adapted to be attached to a supporting hook, a grooved clothes line receiving pulley j ournalled in the ends of the frame, a bracket hinged to one side of the frame to swing toward said side and away from said side, a guide arm rigidly mounted intermediate the ends on the end of the bracket terminating in curved extremities adapted to be engaged astride of the pulley to form clothes line guides and prevent the conventional knot in the clothes line passing over the pulley, and means for releasably looking the bracket against said side of the frame to hold said guide arm in operative position.

2. A clothes line pulley comprising an elongated U-shaped frame adapted to engage over a hook at the closed end and having parallel sides, a grooved clothes line receiving pulley journalled for rotation between the sides of the frame, one of said sides being provided with hinge lugs, a bracket pivotally mounted on said hinge lugs to swing toward and away from said side, a guide arm rigidly mounted at the end of the bracket at right angles thereto and extending upwardly and downwardly from the bracket, said guide arm terminating in curved extremities adapted to straddle the grooved periphery of the pulley and prevent the conventional knot in the clothes line passing over the pulley, said bracket being provided with a longitudinal slot, and a wing bolt engaged through said slot and entering a threaded opening at said. side of the frame, the wing of the bolt being disposed transversely of the slot to hold the bracket closed against said side of the frame, the Wing of the bolt being turned parallel with the slot to permit the bracket and the guide arm being swung away from the pulley to permit said knot to pass over the pulley.

EUGENE CHARLES PFLEIDER, 

